# People who don't return carts ain't always lazy. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-dont-return-carts-aint-always-lazy/231672 "2004-02-28T23:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-dont-return-carts-aint-always-lazy/231672/121 "2004-03-03T14:07:45Z")
> [@](#): > > You should hold the door open for people. That’s common courtesy. However, if for any random reason you fail to do this, do you require a “get out of jail free” card in order to avoid being considered sub-human? Not hardly. Failure to perform courtesies does not equate to being an asshole. If you’re right behind someone walking into a store, and they let the door close in your face, rather than take 2 seconds to hold it open for you, you _wouldn’t_have the random “What an asshole” comment flit across your mind? 😕 Maybe it’s just the withering look my mom always gave me growing up if I didn’t hold the door open for people behind me… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-dont-return-carts-aint-always-lazy/231672/122 "2004-03-03T15:15:27Z")
Actually, **lezlers** , most of my ire was directly at people with that attitude of **Bill Door** , who was stating in post #6 that it wasn’t his fucking job. I’ll bow out of this thread now before I get all over-excited and blood-vessel-bursting again. Suffice it to say that you and I can agree to disagree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-dont-return-carts-aint-always-lazy/231672.md?page=6)